MASTERPIECE CLASSIC: "THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD"
PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET
(Check Local Listings) With this new two-hour dramatic adaptation for television, Gwyneth Hughes becomes the latest writer to tackle the unfinished business of Charles Dickens’ last novel, incomplete at the time of his death. Matthew Rhys stars as John Jasper, the uncle of young Edwin (Freddie Fox), who’s long been in love with his young fiancé, Rosa (Tamzin Merchant). It’s actually a love triangle of sorts, with the uncle having dark designs on Rosa – a passion of which Edwin is, at first, utterly oblivious. If you find yourself drifting off near the end of Edwin Drood, and don’t finish it, don’t feel too bad. Neither did Dickens.